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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Translator(s): Bloshteyn, Maria. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 202 x 12. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590178362
ISBN
9781590178362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.95

Paperback. Translator(s): Constantine, Peter. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 208 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Later printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583220269
ISBN
9781583220269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.03

Paperback. Depicts a post-cataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves. Sharply opposed to such a trend, a group of crones confined to a nursing home - all of them apparently immortal - resolves to create an avenging grandson fashioned of lint and rags. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Num Pages: 166 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220898
ISBN
9780803220898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.85

Paperback. Could a felt hat have the power to change lives? When President Francois Mitterrand leaves his hat behind at a Paris brasserie, it sets off a chain of momentous events in the lives of those who come to wear it. Translator(s): Rogers, Lalaurie Louise; Aitken, Jane; Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908313478
ISBN
9781908313478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. A collector unearths the find of a lifetime: an eighteenth-century portrait of a man uncannily like him. Translator(s): Boyce, Emily; Aitken, Jane. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198. .
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910477434
ISBN
9781910477434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.56

Paperback. Antoine Laurain s new masterpiece combines his trademark charm with a trenchant critique of the troubled state France is today." Translator(s): Boyce, Emily; Aitken, Jane. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 257 x 19. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910477304
ISBN
9781910477304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. 'He was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For no man should rummage through a woman's handbag.' Translator(s): Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908313867
ISBN
9781908313867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

paperback. Features novels including "Southern Mail" and "Night Flight" that evoke the tragic courage and nobility of the airborne pioneers who took enormous risks, flying in open cock-pits in planes that were often fragile and unstable. Translator(s): Cate, Curtis. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Classic
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183749
ISBN
9780141183749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. In "The Little Prince",a small boy leaves the tiny planet on which he lives alone, on a trip to Earth, where he is introduced to the vagaries of adult behaviour. "Letter to a Hostage" is an open letter to a Jewish intellectual in hiding in occupied France. Illustrator(s): Saint-Exupery, Antoine De. Translator(s): Cuffe, T.V.F. Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts S. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185620
ISBN
9780141185620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.42

Paperback. The first of Trollope's six Palliser novels, Can You Forgive Her? explores the dilemma of Alice Vavasor, torn between two suitors, and the choices faced by two other independent women. The tensions within Victorian society highlighted by the plot are illuminated in the introduction and notes to this new edition. Editor(s): Birch, Dinah. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199578177
ISBN
9780199578177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.36

hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 140. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
London, Calder & Boyars United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714507262
ISBN
9780714507262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.27

paperback. Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship.. Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781784703127
ISBN
9781784703127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. London, 1882. David Wildeblood, an idealistic young journalist, pounds the streets of Camden reporting on the notorious slums. The misery and squalor surprise him, but more shocking still is the realisation that someone is profiting from this destitution. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099575153
ISBN
9780099575153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she shouldn't have been at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099593232
ISBN
9780099593232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780226137186
ISBN
9780226137186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.08

Paperback. Takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780226132969
ISBN
9780226132969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.08

Paperback. A post as special correspondent for a new and fragile Baltic state gives the young but melancholy Lushington an opportunity to turn his back on an unhappy love affair. While gathering information at the many parties he attends, he hopes to report on unrest, an assassination, perhaps even a revolution. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 17. Weight in Grams: 154. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KAC0002362
ISBN
9781784750619
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.67

Paperback. Part of a twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time". Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Lightly toned, text is clear and remains fine
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0027227
ISBN
9780099472537
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 24.00

paperback. The opening novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time". Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472384
ISBN
9780099472384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Part of the twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time". Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472445
ISBN
9780099472445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

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